German Developer Awards 2006

December 20th, 2006, 18:54

The winners of the annual German Developer Awards have been announced. While the international success for computer games made in Germany is traditionally mixed a closer examination of the list of honoured games makes it clear that 2006 was a great year for German, Austrian and Swiss developers - maybe even their best year ever.

As expected the GOTY is Sunflowers&acute; / Related Design&acute;s big budget city builder Anno 1701 (a.k.a. 1701 AD), followed by Phenomic&acute;s (sorry, EA Phenomic&acute;s) brilliant RPG/RTS hybrid SpellForce 2 - Shadow Wars and Piranha Bytes controversial RPG Gothic 3.Gothic 3 won in the categories Best Soundtrack and Best Story / Game World.
All winners and runner-ups as well as the results of the audience votes can be found on the official page .More information.